NaevaTheRat
@NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org
- Comment on Team Cherry Finely Provides An Update On Hollow Knight: Silksong 1 day ago:
2035, come back to my zuckermusk hab unit after a hard day in the lithium mines. Silksong has released. Saved all my metacoin for this, haven’t had a hot shower in years. Boot it up, it’s beautiful. The art brings tears to my eyes, makes me remember a world beyond concrete and steel. Level one, let’s go. Movement so tight it’s euphoric, get to first boss.
Electricity rationing kicks in.
- Comment on One in 10 homes could become uninsurable by 2035, analyst warns 2 days ago:
Ah, you never know online
- Comment on One in 10 homes could become uninsurable by 2035, analyst warns 2 days ago:
The earliest insurance was indeed communist. People recognised that it sucks for everyone so they paid into communal schemes.
Private insurance is a rort, as the moment it’s not mathematically disadvantageous to buy they pull out of the market.
It is exactly the sort of thing that should be nationalised.
- Comment on Teen denies twice setting wire traps on bike path despite alleged video 3 days ago:
Not often I come away from a discussion on sentencing glad the cops are the ones making the prosecution.
- Comment on Teen denies twice setting wire traps on bike path despite alleged video 3 days ago:
4 people hit it? 0 died. So just guessing but less than 25% chance to kill you. That’s not very likely.
- Comment on Teen denies twice setting wire traps on bike path despite alleged video 3 days ago:
That is a preposterous comparison. There is actually a difference between obtaining a lethal weapon, pointing it at someone you can directly see and using it on them and booby trapping something in an unlikely to be lethal way. The psychology is completely different.
I’m not talking out my arse. I’m trans, I’ve been hunted, released, and hunted again over and over one night then left bleeding and concussed in a gutter to die. I know what violence is, I know what it feels like to be a victim. Putting young people in gaol because you’re scared and out for blood is a stupid thing to want unless your goal is turning a damaged kid into an unrepentant monster who’s going to spend their life lashing out.
- Comment on Teen denies twice setting wire traps on bike path despite alleged video 3 days ago:
Nobody died. Nobody is saying people on bikes are free game. There are penalties between nothing and ten thousand years dungeon. You can do stuff like paying damages (years of debt for a kid like that! and actually helps the people hurt), suspended sentencing contingent on fulfilling behavioural therapy and no further convictions.
- Comment on Teen denies twice setting wire traps on bike path despite alleged video 4 days ago:
What do you anticipate the likely outcome of a gaol sentence early in life to be? If it’s not recidivism I would suggest you study criminology some. Fuck even my bastard of a BIL cop prosecutor recognises that sending kids to gaol just gets them coming back again and again.
- Comment on Teen denies twice setting wire traps on bike path despite alleged video 4 days ago:
It’s horrible but he’s 18. This isn’t some unredeemable monster, just a stupid kid who’s done something awful. A long imprisonment is like the worst thing possible, killing him would be kinder, cheaper, and less likely to lead to future crimes.
Again he’s 18. Hooking him up with a social worker and a therapist is likely the best for society and the kid.
- Comment on Temu recalls flammable glow-in-the-dark jumper after 8yo girl suffers burns 2 weeks ago:
Ok big guy, that’s a weird thing to take offense at but you do you.
- Comment on Temu recalls flammable glow-in-the-dark jumper after 8yo girl suffers burns 2 weeks ago:
This is goalpost moving, and you are being rude.
Yes, people take a chance on cheap things and expect them to tear at the seams, crack after a year in the sun, or not work on delivery. They do not expect them to go up like flash paper. You know this, you are clever enough to recognise the difference.
- Comment on Temu recalls flammable glow-in-the-dark jumper after 8yo girl suffers burns 2 weeks ago:
Vendors selling to Australians in AUD must obey Australian standards. You take this for granted all the time when you e.g. buy an item off Amazon and it isn’t full of lead.
If you install an application through an official channel, it treats you like any other retail store, it shows you AUD prices, and you pay in AUD without filling out any sort of import declaration etc it is entirely reasonable to expect them to be in compliance with Australian regulations. Whatever the legal reality is here (ianal).
- Comment on Feeble defence from ABC confirms abject failure to report Labor accurately 2 weeks ago:
I have a lot of bones to pick with this gov but their investment in public works/the public service are markedly better than the last 9 years of straight up looting the country.
- Comment on Temu recalls flammable glow-in-the-dark jumper after 8yo girl suffers burns 2 weeks ago:
Regulations are written in blood. Corporate industry can add another “accident” the pile :/
- Comment on Temu recalls flammable glow-in-the-dark jumper after 8yo girl suffers burns 2 weeks ago:
No. That is a fucked up way to look at this. It is a good thing that regulations exist which means I don’t have to be an electrical engineer, microbiologist, thin film chemist, soil scientist, hydrological engineer etc etc in order to avoid being hurt by shoddy products.
People who skirt regulations and sell inferior goods are bad people and the blame lies with them.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 2 weeks ago:
I strongly suspect you have some wires crossed. There have been some attempts at simulating brains but I think a fruit fly is partially done and it’s making a fair few assumptions.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty straightforward to completely replicate the behavior of e.g. a house fly in software
Could you provide an example of a complete housefly model?
- Comment on Water 2 weeks ago:
Also interesting: If you were to take your nerves out and lay them end on end you would die.
Actually interesting fact
Your height is closer to a light second than the size of an atom. And yet atoms seem more approachable in scale than light seconds. Fascinating stuff!
- Comment on We pored over the newly unsealed 2004 cabinet files. Here's what stood out 2 weeks ago:
cackling like a swamp hag over here.
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 3 weeks ago:
That’s a little histrionic. A large part of propaganda is censorship, it is propaganda when the Chinese government censors discussion of e.g. tiananmen square and it is also propaganda when a mashup of laws and commercial interests prevent people from openly discussing or educating themselves on political tactics. The essential essence is controlling what ideas are normalised and permissible and which are not without engaging with the substance of them.
Not all propaganda is bad, you probably agree with some stuff like indoctrination of people with the idea they have a moral obligation to help their community, or to first attempt resolution of problems via legal means.
There are obvious differences in how and what gets supressed or encouraged but you are completely naive if you think that all states are not explicitly propagandising their populations. They are not benevolent guardians they are weird machines of flesh and ideas which project power because those that don’t get selected away. If you think being clear eyed about the unreliability of emissions from LLMs is cover for chinese statecraft you are a paranoid moron.
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 3 weeks ago:
Try asking chat gpt how to arm an insurgent group to overthrow the government. Or get it to admit the usa is a democracy in name only.
The difference is that we don’t see propaganda for what it is when it’s just “common sense” or the values being propagandised to us are ones we agree with. There are explicit censors in chat gpt.
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 3 weeks ago:
All LLMs have propaganda baked in to them.
- Comment on Peter Dutton says he'll never stand in front of an Aboriginal flag as prime minister 1 month ago:
It is weapons-grade stupid that this is a thing.
- Six years to create, two days to dismantle. What happens now Queensland’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry has been scrapped?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to australianpolitics@aussie.zone | 0 comments
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- NSW government rules out decriminalisation at drug summit. Prefers strip searching tweens and helping teenagers poison themselves.www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to news@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on Stupid Sexy Mice 1 month ago:
log off
- Comment on Australia changes position to support [UN] vote demanding Israel end occupation of Gaza, East Jerusalem and West Bank 1 month ago:
Just in time to have crushed protests, fired media figures, supplied weapons (I’m sorry, supplied parts of weapons platforms. Very different), and starvation to have kicked in.
One must hope that better late than never holds true.
- Comment on Judas 1 month ago:
Yeah the hair isn’t exactly, but the T and HGH is.
I think he might have had maxillofacial surgery too, but it could just be the HGH.
- Comment on back to the ocean we go 1 month ago:
Because we are ugly, mutant fish.